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991186

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date	19/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Armed Conflict: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assistance his Department has (a) requested and (b) received from the European Counter-Terrorism Centre on apprehending foreign fighters.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	181625
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The Government values the role of Europol in helping law enforcement agencies coordinate investigations into serious and organised cross border crime and terrorism. That includes the European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC) which was set up in 2016 as an operations centre and hub of expertise for EU Member States at Europol. Since September 2017 the UK has embedded UK Police Officers within the ECTC and works closely with our European partners through the centre.</p><p>Information exchange between UK authorities and Europol is well-established and takes place on a daily and routine basis on a wide range of criminal activity. This includes information sharing to tackle the threat of terrorism and cooperation continues to assist UK efforts to tackle cross-border terrorist activity impacting on the UK.</p><p>We cannot comment specifically on the assistance that the Department has requested and received from the ECTC as this is operationally sensitive information.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 20/11/2018 17:46:14 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

991188

registered interest
date	19/10/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Armed Conflict: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Directive 2017/541 on apprehending foreign fighters under Article 9 of that Directive.
tabling member constituency	Torfaen
tabling member printed	Nick Thomas-Symonds
uin	181627
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The UK did not opt in to Directive 2017/541 on combating terrorism. UK effec-tiveness on combating terrorism and countering travelling for the purpose of terrorism, as referred to by Article 9 of Directive 2017/541 is not governed through this EU legislation. The UK already has strong domestic legislation in place and opting in would not have increased further public protection.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 29/10/2018 16:34:51 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4479 label Biography information for Nick Thomas-Symonds

806504

registered interest
date	14/12/2017
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Armed Conflict: British Nationals Abroad
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it is Government policy that UK citizens who are suspected of committing criminal offences while fighting abroad will be dealt with by UK courts.
tabling member constituency	Manchester, Gorton
tabling member printed	Afzal Khan
uin	119580
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/04/2018 answer text <p>Where there is evidence that crimes have been committed, foreign fighters should be brought to justice in accordance with due legal process. The UK takes extra-territorial jurisdiction for most terrorism offences, so that we are able to prosecute people in the UK for terrorism activity undertaken overseas if this is appropriate.</p><p> </p><p>There are also other criminal offences, including murder, for which the UK takes extra-territorial jurisdiction. Criminal investigations and decisions to prosecute depend on the circumstances of each individual case and are a matter for the police and CPS.</p><p> </p><p>There will be occasions where evidence against suspects means that the most appropriate jurisdiction to prosecute is not the UK in which case UK law enforcement will assist when required, subject to a range of safeguards.</p> answering member constituency Wyre and Preston North answering member printed Mr Ben Wallace question first answered 17/04/2018 12:28:41 answering member 1539 label Biography information for Mr Ben Wallace
tabling member	4671 label Biography information for Afzal Khan

419723

registered interest
date	05/10/2015
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Armed Conflict: British Nationals Abroad
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many people aged (1) 21 and over, and (2) under 21, are known to have returned to the United Kingdom from a conflict zone since January 2014; and of those, how many were (a) charged with an offence and convicted, and (b) not charged but were put under supervision and entered into programmes of deradicalisation.
tabling member printed	Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws
uin	HL2426
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/10/2015 answer text <p>Figures on the number of people who have returned to the UK from all conflict zones are not available. However, the Police have estimated that around 700 people from the UK who are of concern are thought to have travelled to the Syria/Iraq region since the start of the conflict, and that around half of those have returned. All decisions on handling returnees from Syria or Iraq are taken on a case-by-case basis. For some, prosecution for terrorist offences is the right course of action, and this will be a decision for the police and the Crown Prosecution Service. For others, it may be that support from mental health or social services might be more appropriate.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 19/10/2015 16:24:26 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	1987 label Biography information for Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws